Estates Quotes

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.

The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums some have suggested. In 1994, his family cut him off.

I shall recommend … uniform laws … for all of the States, and especially for marriage, divorce, and the limitations of contracts, and such a regulation of the laws of descent and distribution of estates as will make the wife equal with the husband in authority and right, and an equal partner in the common business.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

In a country like ours, abounding with free men all of one rank, where property is equally diffused, where estates are held in fee simple, the press free, and the means of information common; tyranny cannot readily find admission under any form of government; but its admission is next to impossible, under one where the people are the source of all power, and elect either immediately, by representatives, or immediately by themselves the whole of their rulers.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

The greatest estates we have in this colony were made … by taking up and purchasing at very low rates the rich back lands which were thought nothing of in those days, but are now the most valuable lands we possess.

The education of their Children, as well Daughters as Sons; all whiesch, be they of never so great quality or estate, they always take care to bring up to write perfect good hands, and to have the full knowledge and use of Arithmetick and Merchants’ Accounts; the well understanding and practice whereof, doth strangely infuse into most that are the owners of that quality, of either Sex, not only an ability for Commerce of all kinds, but a strong aptitude, love, and delight in it; and in regard the women are as knowing therein as the men, it doth encourage their Husbands to hold on in their Trades to their dying days, knowing the capacity of their Wives to get in their Estates, and carry on their Trades after their Deaths.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

Now everybody has to work together. They are the fourth estate. Incredibly powerful.

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

I also love real estate and decorating.

New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.

The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females.

If the husband of a woman die, his wife may take her husband's patrimony

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?

Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

Banishment from court alone will force the French nobility to execute what the English do for pleasure—reside upon and adorn their estates.